Microsoft offering bonus Skydrive storage to College Students

SkyDrive is a great way to back up and store files in the cloud, and access everything from your tablet, computer or Windows Phone. SkyDrive is a free service with 7GB of storage. From students (or anyone else for that matter) 7GB might not be enough.

If you're a college student you can get an extra 3GB on top of that. All you need to do is head over here, enter a valid .edu email address, and a free storage code will be sent your way.

There are a few catches though. The extra storage space is only available for a year from redemption. Codes are limited to one per person and the code must be used by December 31, 2013.

It may not be the best deal, but if you need a bump in SkyDrive storage for your college needs, the extra 3GB could come in handy. Oh... and if you haven't installed the SkyDrive app on your Windows Phone, you can find it here in the Windows Phone Store.

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Microsoft offering bonus Skydrive storage to College Students

most of us students need it for .doc files and a few images here and there.

I'm using it heavily for oneNote, so a lot of screenshots, and rough draft essays.
I'm takign advantage of this for the next 4 years and see if I will actually use up all of it. Placing all of my paperwork on skydrive.

I signed up to hotmail more than a decade ago and that surely is"back in the days", and I do remember having 25 GB storage. But since they moved to all new interfaces, its gone down to 7! What a shame!

and that shows how you didnt even use skydrive.... so why "what a shame"??

they gave like 2 weeks for people to go to 25gb when they said they would take everyone to 7gb for new users, and for old users if they didnt use much their skydrive and they werent using 7gb of their skydrive storage they would algo go to 7gb but as an old user you only had to "buy" back for free the 25gb storage. it was simple as that..
so you could have been able to get your 25gb but i doubt you really didnt even use it much, im sure you didnt even contact support to ask why 7gb and not 25 when it was downgradedm becauseim sure they would have said you could get your 25gb back by going to X link.

so Microsoft was right and it shows users like you who dont use much skydrive can live with 7gb

We should not be surprised by that, its typical microsoft, all services for the US and screw everyone else who wants them; the xbox one announcement was similar, if you are outside the US you are screwed in terms of services you can access.

That's true... For some reason Microsoft tries to encourage the American citizens to follow Microsoft and do the opposite with the European citizens... When for example will create a Microsoft store in UK (NOT in Europe, but at least in Engalnd)

Please, enlighten us why you are chanting for USA? I mean, with a broken economy, millions of homeless people, half of you are to fat, guns for everyone, millions in private prisons, broken healthcare, you are really not doing so good right? But if 3GB of storage a year makes you happy, it's all good.

You've got to be joking. Much of the middle class has been stagnant for likely thirty years. The lower class has been losing ground. Unemployment is still high. There's two economy's here, a casino economy at the top likely heading for another bubble and the rest of us trying to recover from the last bubble.

Nope, not joking. A very small percentage of the population lost their jobs, and a small percentage of homeowners ended up losing their homes. But for most of us, our homes have regained their value now, and people are DEFINITELY better off than they were 30 years ago.
Look around you before listening to some out of touch, activist college professor who doesn't even live in the real world and whose political views are such that he's always got a bone to pick.

Well, I'm no longer a student. So I didn't get the 3GB.
As for for the state of my country, where are you from? America is still the greatest nation in the world. Is it all sunshine and lollipops? No, but if you haven't noticed their is a global economic crisis. Hate on haters.

WIll they add 3gb to my 25gb ? :)
I'll take all I can get, I might not need it now but, at some point I will, I am sure..

Edit: Oh....
Voucher valid for an extra 3 GB of free SkyDrive storage for one year. Voucher must be redeemed by 12/31/13. 3 GB storage expires one year from voucher redemption. Limit: one voucher per person. Not redeemable for cash or gift cards. Single use only. This voucher is non-transferrable, and may only be redeemed by U.S. college students.
It expires, oh, well forget for me..

you can get 50GB free storage with box, simply head over to box.com and make a normal free account, once you've made that, email them at ca@box.com with the email you used to sign up for your free account and tell them that the 50GB free storage didn't work for you, or that you heard about the 50GB of free storage, they will email you back letting you know your account has been upgraded, they are extremly nice and very polite

hope this helped some people, you can also use a free service provided by box to automaticly transfer all your data (free up to 10GB) from your current provider (skydrive, dropbox etc...) to your new box service! just reply to my comment if you need any help!

@Volchonokilli If you are not a COLLEGE STUDENT then you can not do anything to get it.The key word here is College-University not regular high school.Most colleges give you one. I finished college last year but my email from there still active so right now I have 25gb on SkyDrive plus I'm going to claim that .Is going to be 28gb

I still don't understand why Microsoft downgraded SkyDrive from 25GB to 7GB. I mean, I know the obvious reason but weren't they prepared for such demand if they offered it in the first place? Google recently increased Google Drive to 15 GB.

you can get 20 GB of storage following this link https://copy.com?r=xu22E1 from COPY.
Sign up & install on one device.
The service is pretty good already. Winows Mobile support coming soon, as far as I know.
After you sign up you canearn UNLIMITED storage throuh referral (5GB per referral).
Check it out.

Nice for the students that get the storage, but it's a shame that non-US-Students are excluded from this. MS is a global company that wants to sell its products globally, so it should act accordingly. To all who are going to answer "deal with it" or "USA! USA", could you please forget your nationalism for a second and think about why the paying customers all over the world shouldn't get the same offers?

The more MS stuff you have the more space you should get. I have 2 win 8 laptops and a wp8 phone, plus Xbox 360. Should be 7 gig per device. As Flickr has upped their limit to 1TB. Hopefully MS will up their limit.

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SkyDrive give the total 10 GB storatge it is enough for students class work, and docs of a students, your all record no need to keep online every time. manage your work style and perform well. thanks sky drive nice one.

It's so nice the storage they have been offering, as I've used SkyDrive over the years as a college student, I have close to 50 GB of free storage now at my disposal by taking advantage of many of their offers.